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The internet peanut gallery will whine about literally everything under the sun. At a certain point I can see why some people would want to harness that energy
by 0xDEAFBEAD 1mo ago
The internet peanut gallery will whine about literally everything under the sun. At a certain point I can see why some people would want to harness that energy for their advantage. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em and all that.
- encom 1mo agoElon Derangement Syndrome is real, like the Trump equivalent.
- slig 1mo agoIt's worse. Elon was very well praised by the same people, Trump was never liked.
- noduerme 1mo agoTo be fair, it's possible that he changed, rather than that everyone who now hates him did.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 1mo agoMany people regard Elon as a hero or villain. I regard him as a tragedy: A great entrepreneur who wrecked his sanity due to drugs, genetics, and/or overwork.
- cmrdporcupine 1mo agoIf you read his ex-wife's account of their history together, and also the drama of what happened at PayPal etc... he was always kinda .. off.. and full of shit. Then again, I often think that about myself. But I'm not a trillionaire. It does sound like losing his first child at 10 weeks really messed him up. It definitely would do that to anybody.
- throw-the-towel 1mo agoWhat if insanity is required to be a great entrepreneur?
- Vaslo 1mo agoI guess if that’s how you have to make yourself feel better about the worlds first trillionaire and his success after success, have at it.
- phoghed 1mo agoI don’t even understand what this comment is trying to imply
- mitxela 1mo agoIt's saying Elon is better than you because he's richer, and as we all know, capitalism is a meritocracy.
- phoghed 1mo agoHe seems like a pretty miserable guy though. Tons of pressure, no real friends, utterly and very visibly failed doge, almost universally despised completely of his own doing.
- maxlin 1mo agoIt's not him who's wrecked. It's just some poor souls who cant't stand how right he is while he expresses that with autistic crudeness. Musk is the same guy he was 10 years ago, still working his ass off on visionary projects, beating rest of the world on those fronts. And we love him for that!
- noduerme 1mo agoThe thing is, it's difficult to tell what his opinions actually are when he's so committed to trolling and being crude. Even if you sussed them all out and agreed with them, he wouldn't be someone you'd want to emulate, just on the basis that he has a hard time articulating anything consistently. If it's the crudeness that you love, then I guess the opinions themselves take a back seat. But at that point you're just cheering for an agent of chaos, rather than having a consistent set of beliefs of your own.
- maxlin 1mo agoNope, I appreciate being unapologetically right. Instead of lying and causing other harms just to satisfy fee-fees.
- qlte 1mo ago> cant't stand how right he is That's.... convenient. No need to interrogate the stated reasons why someone you admire is not universally and uncritically beloved. I'll just ignore the reasons they themselves repeatedly give and instead assume they actually hate how correct he is about everything. Despite the things he was famously wrong about like COVID cases in 2020 going to 0 in a matter of weeks.
- maxlin 1mo agoIf you have to dig that far, you're not doing very well. Being truth-seeking means you're willing to be wrong more times than your opponents, which do statements that say nothing instead. He takes an engineering approach to all problems, and yes that sometimes means painful iteration, but at least he has the _chance_ of arriving at truth and right solutions. We owe people that take that brunt this whole world.
- figmert 1mo agoGreat entrepreneur is a bit of a far fetch. His own friends(?) didn't want him to be CEO of paypal back in the day.
- apefulsin 1mo agoHe's just serving the profitable market niche of incompetent CEOs with golden parachutes